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 Multi-day onsite assistance from a
Mentor Graphics Calibre Design
Solutions support engineer
 Invests time up front to fully
understand your environment and
flow
 Works side by side with your team
Benefits
 Implementation issues can be
quickly and directly addressed
 Allows for a more targeted and
faster adoption process
 Your team achieves faster time to
productivity
Accelerate Implementation of Your Calibre Design Solutions Environment
Adopting your design environment to the features and advantages of Mentor Graphics Calibre Design Solutions
tools nmDRC, nmLVS, xACT3D, DESIGNrev and Calibre Interactive with RVE can be streamlined with the
PIVOT Calibre Design Solutions Service, a Select Support Service from Mentor.
With this service, a Mentor Graphics Calibre Design Solutions support engineer will work onsite as you deploy
your new project. Their extensive experience and guidance will help save you hours so your flow will be running in
the most efficient manner possible. With their knowledge of design flow processes, they will work with you to
ensure the latest best practices are utilized. This multi-day effort enables you to address any implementation issues
directly and quickly, helping to eliminate what can sometimes take weeks to solve.
The support engineer’s preparation begins before arriving at your site with a requirements gathering meeting.
This session will allow them to develop a better understanding of your environment; review your flow goals,
performance concerns and discuss upcoming projects.
Typically, this service requires between 2 and 5 days on site, plus the requirements gathering meeting. At the
conclusion of this service, you will be better prepared to maximize productivity in your test flow, in addition to
having the necessary setup and configuration completed for utilizing the tools. You may elect to add advanced,
focused tool training for maximum efficiency.
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Key Details
Preparation meeting before onsite work
• Takes your test case from initial layout through the
Calibre flow up until the post-tapeout (PTO) stage
• Enables the support engineer to gain an understanding
of your environment, available hardware compatibility
with your tasks, processes, and goals; discuss
prerequisites; identify areas for special attention, and
provide more targeted guidance when onsite
Works with your team onsite to
streamline adoption of Calibre Design
Solutions tools to suit your needs;
examples include:
• Review verification and data generation principles
and best practices
• On the spot identification of bottlenecks and
immediate steps to alleviate them
• Offsite testcase testing to isolate site hardware and
operating system issues
• Will take your design through the Calibre Design
Solutions flow to the PTO stage.
About Mentor Graphics Customer Support
Mentor Graphics offers leading support for EDA tools,
providing rapid, expert response to technical product
issues for the complete suite of Mentor Graphics
products.
To help design teams around the world accelerate
product development and increase quality, Mentor
Graphics offers a smooth transition to product
enhancements and new releases, timely access to
technical assistance, an ever-expanding array of online
solutions, and premium support for special situations.
On SupportNet you can :
Implementation issues are directly
addressed
• Adoption of your Calibre Design Solutions system will
be accelerated, increasing your team’s productivity
• Reduce the number of Verification-related stops/starts
that typically occur early in the adoption process by
proactively addressing flow pitfalls
• Troubleshoot technical issues through TechNotes
• Download latest releases
• Reference documentation
• Open & track Service Requests
• Manage licensing
• Access system administration information
• Suggest, vote and comment on product
improvements with Mentor Ideas
• Learn, share and network with other users on
Mentor Communities
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